Scandal Quotes

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  Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

  Henry Fielding

  Love, Gossip, Tea

  'Love in Several Masques' (1728) act 4, sc. 11

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• I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.

  Salvador Dali

  Artist, World, Enough

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• Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.

  Josh Billings

  Tea, Maids, Old Maids

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• There's a lust in man, no charm can tame, of loudly publishing our neighbor's shame.

  Juvenal

  Men, Eagles, Lust

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• You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Friendship, Real, Who Your Friends Are

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.

  St. Jerome

  Tongue, One Love, Pleasure

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• Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Return, Movement, Literature

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• The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we are a set always ready to believe a scandal.

  Ovid

  Believe, Mind, Innocence

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• Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.

  Karl Kraus

  Police, Literature

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• The mightier man, the mightier is the thing That makes him honored or begets him hate; For greatest scandal waits on greatest state.

  William Shakespeare

  Hate, Men, Waiting

  William Shakespeare (1999). “The Narrative Poems”, p.88, Penguin

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• Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a look, far better than a printed book; convey a libel in a frown, and wink a reputation down.

  Jonathan Swift

  Book, Looks, Tongue

  'The Journal of a Modern Lady' (1729) l. 188

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• The improbability of a malicious story serves but to help forward the currency of it, because it increases the scandal. So that, in such instances, the world is like the pious St. Austin, who said he believed some things because they were absurd and impossible.

  Laurence Sterne

  Austin, Stories, World

  Laurence Sterne (1803). “The works of Laurence Sterne, with a life of the author, written by himself”

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• Queen Mary had a way of interrupting tattle about elopements, duels, and play debts, by asking the tattlers, very quietly yet significantly, whether they had ever read her favorite sermon--Dr. Tillotson on Evil Speaking.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Queens, Play, Evil

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• Mistakes, scandals, and failures no longer signal catastrophe. The crucial thing is that they be made credible, and that the public be made aware of the efforts being expended in that direction. The marketing immunity of governments is similar to that of the major brands of washing powder.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Mistake, Government, Effort

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.109, Verso

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• One should never make one's entrance with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.

  Oscar Wilde

  Giving, Luck, Age

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• Believe that story false that ought not to be true.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Believe, Stories, Being True

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• A tale of scandal is as fatal to the credit of a prudent lady as a fever is generally to those of the strongest constitutions. But there is a sort of puny, sickly reputation, that is always ailing, yet will wither the robuster characters of a hundred prudes.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Character, Prudes, Credit

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• Certain it is that scandal is good brisk talk, whereas praise of one's neighbor is by no means lively hearing. An acquaintance grilled, scored, devilled, and served with mustard and cayenne pepper excites the appetite; whereas a slice of cold friend with currant jelly is but a sickly, unrelishing meat.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Mean, Old Friends, Hearing

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “The four Georges. The English humorists. Roundabout papers”, p.285

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• When I go to Rome, I fast on Saturday, but in Milan I do not. Do you also follow the custom of whatever church you attend, if you do not want to give or receive scandal.

  Ambrose

  Rome, Giving, Church

  In St Augustine 'Letter 54 to Januarius' (c.400 A.D.) in 'St Augustine. Letters' vol. 1 (translated by Sister W. Parsons, 1951) p. 253.

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• Scandal is the sport of its authors, the dread of fools, and the contempt of the wise.

  William Benton Clulow

  Sports, Wise, Fool

  William Benton Clulow (1843). “Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion”, p.137

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• Scandals are like dandelion seeds--they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold.

  Ouida

  Fall, Arrows, Dandelions

  Ouida (1875). “Chandos: A Novel”, p.60

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• Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Thinking, People, Blazing

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.307, Delphi Classics

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• The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.

  Moliere

  Silence, World, Sin

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• I am not the girl the guy gets at the end of the movie. I am not a fantasy. If you want me, earn me.

  Olivia

  Girl, Guy, Want

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• There never was a scandalous tale without some foundation.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Foundation, Tales, Scandalous

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan, J. W. Lake (1838). “The school for scandal: a comedy in five acts”, p.65

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